Track Season Is Over – That Means It’s Time For 2015 NCAA XC – Pre-Season Rankings

LRC2015 Women's XC Preview: #4 Georgetown and #3 Stanford

Legends In The News

• Former Arkansas Razorback Great Niall O’Shaughnessy Passes Away At 59 He ran 3:55 way back in 1977. John McDonnell: “He truly was the ultimate teammate and one of the finest I have ever coached. He helped start the winning tradition at Arkansas.”
  *Recommonded Read: Former 2-time world indoor 3k champ Frank O’Mara’s tribute to Irish mile legend O’Shaughnessy O’Shaughnessy walked away from the sport and declined a spot in the 1980 Olympics to focus on engineering.
  *MB: RIP – Niall O’Shaughnessy
• Free History Lesson Checking In With The Chairman Of The Boards – The Legendary Miler, Now Graceful Ambassador For The Sport – Eamonn Coghlan What a career. So many Millrose victories, the first sub-3:50 indoors, the first world title at 5,000 and the first sub-40 by a 40-year-old.
• Columnist Is Mad Stadium Is Being Named After Usain Bolt In Jamaica “Why is there such an unholy haste to name things after athletes who are still competing and are not even 30 years old as yet?”

News From Canada

• Canada’s Shawn Barber Explains Why He Decided To Turn Professional Following Pole Vault Gold At World Championships He’d done it all at the NCAA level and won Canada’s first gold at Worlds since 1993.
• A Review Of Matt Hughes’s Excellent 2015 Season The 8th placer at Worlds in the steeple did everything but improve his steeple PR.

News From Jamaica

• Usain Bolt Donates $10,000 And Equipment To His Old School In JamaicaIt sounds much more impressive in Jamaican currency as that’s $1.3 million Jamaican.
• 18-Year-Old Martin Manley Goes Pro He ran 45.89 in 2013 age age 16 but only 46.41 this year.
• Who Is Jamaica’s Female Athlete Of The Year? We assume it will be SAFP but 100H champ Danielle Williams had a great year.
• Warren Weir Reflects On Injury-Plagued Year But Vows He’ll Have Big 2016

South Africa’s Wade van Niekerk – 43.38 PR – Returns Home To South Africa To Reception By Zero Media And Fans – Only His Mom Showed Blame his agent?

All-African Games *Full Results

• Alice Aprot, Younger Sister Of former World XC Champ Joseph Ebuya, Wins Surprise Gold In Women’s 10,000 At African Champs She wasn’t even entered in the event but took home gold, as did Nijel Amos in the men’s 800.
• Isaac Makwala Wins African Games 400 In 44.35
  
• IAAF Recap:First 3 Days Of All-African Games In The Books: Ben Youssef Meite (10.04) And Marie-Josee Ta Lou (11.02) Dominate The 100m For The Ivory CoastMekonen Gebremedhin (1,500) and Tsebelu Zewude (10,000) get wins for Ethiopia. Sofia Assefa and Hiwot Ayalew also went 1-2 for Ethiopia in the steeple.
• Caster Semenya Wins 800 Handily At African Champs Second place was more than a half second back as she ran 2:00.97.
• Kenya Sweeps Women’s 5,000 Medals At African Champs And Takes Top 2 In Men’s SteepleMargaret Chelimo and Clement Kemboi were the winners.
• South Africa’s Friedrich Pretorius Shows Guts In Winning Decathlon Bronze At African Games Pretorius wanted to quit after a day in a competition that saw brutal heat and up to 8 athletes having to share one pole in the PV, but came through with the bronze.

Upcoming: Watch US Road 5K Champs Live On Sunday

• LRC2015 US Road 5k Champs Feature Loaded Fields – Watch It Live Sunday At 11am ET The names are big – Flanagan, Huddle, Sisson, Conley and others for the women – Estrada, Huling, Chelanga, Torrence and others for the men. The men also features three names that would have crashed our website had this taken place 5 years ago – Ritz, Solinsky and Fernandez.
• The End Of Women’s Sports Has Begun: Dutee Chand Competing In First Big Competition Since CAS Lifted Her Suspension For Hyperandrogenism She’s competing in this week’s Indian National Championships which started yesterday.